Australian doctor Tareq Kamleh surfaces in new Islamic State propaganda video

A playboy Australian doctor who joined Islamic State in 2015 has surfaced in a new propaganda video that shows him working in a hospital, holding a machinegun and telling Muslims who don't join Islamic State that they have "no self-respect".

Paediatric doctor Tareq Kamleh first appeared in an IS propaganda video in 2015, spruiking its health services and urging other Muslim health professionals to join him in the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria.

On Tuesday, a fresh videosurfaced online suggesting Kamleh has survived more than two years of fighting in the region and sustained air strikes by coalition forces.

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In a new IS propaganda video, Adelaide doctor Tareq Kamleh (aka Abu Yusuf al-Australi) focuses on civilian victims of the air strikes and spruiks the heroics of Raqqa's fighters.

The video focuses on civilian victims of the air strikes and spruiks the heroics of Raqqa's fighters.

With a long beard and his Australian accent noticeable, Kamleh is filmed inside a tunnel under Raqqa attacking Muslims who haven't joined the terrorist group.

"It really surprises me how the Muslim nation is acting at the moment and how stagnant you have all become," Kamleh says.

"We are under continuous bombing here and we are fighting hard to try and hold the lands of Islam. What more will it take for it to be a justified cause for you to come here to fight for Allah's sake?

Tareq Kamleh first appeared in a propaganda video in early 2015.

"You are living in the countries that are sending us rockets. You are living in the countries that are killing Muslimeen here and you are paying taxes still to them. You have no honour, you have no self-respect, you have no love for fellow Muslims."

In another scene, he stands at a young girl's hospital bed and says: "We're dealing with the countless numbers of burnt children that are coming in at the moment from the continuous bombings that America is dropping on us … Is this one of the terrorists that America's wanting to hit? This girl lost her mother, father and four siblings last night."

In the new video, Australian doctor Tareq Kamleh attacks Muslims who haven't joined the terrorist group.

Kamleh, who goes by the nom-de-guerre Abu Yousef Al-Australi, grew up in Perth to a Palestinian father and German mother and spent his career working in hospitals in Adelaide, Mackay and Alice Springs.